briefing australian water association on eip water
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EIP Water European Innovation
Partnership on Water
Boosting opportunities
Innovating water
Webinar with the Australian Water Association AWA, 15 July 2015
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Structure
1. Introduction: Name and Background- 5 min
2. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Europe’s main water challenges: 10 min
3. What is the EIP Water? Background, achievements, working groups, who else is involved/who else can be involved? 15 min
4. Water Innovation on the web and Water Innovation Matchmaking: 15 min introduction to the Online Marketplace and its features
5. Q & A / Moderated discussion: 15 min
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What’s in it for Australia?
• Global tools & information
• Global (though EU-centered) partnerships
• Global markets & info requests
• Specific AUS experiences and solutions (e.g. MDB)
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What is the EIP Water and its objectives?
1. EIP Water is an initiative within the so-called “EU 2020 Innovation Union” - the European Union strategy to create an innovation-friendly environment that makes it easier for great ideas to be turned into products and services that will bring our economy growth and jobs
2. EIP Water aims to identify, test, scale up, disseminate and stimulate the uptake of innovative solutions by the market and society for ten major water related challenges by 2020.
3. EIP Water supports the creation of market opportunities for these innovations, both inside and outside of Europe. It also identifies and addresses barriers and bottlenecks to water innovation.
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Role in Innovation Chain
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Water Framework Directive (WFD)
• Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the Community action in the field of water policy
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Water Framework Directive (WFD) - I
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Water Framework
Directive (WFD) - II
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WFD Challenges
• Assessment of Pressures and Impacts; Monitoring; Status assessment; Solid basis for developing Programme of Measures; Permitting/ licensing; Pollution control; Agricultural diffuse pollution; Urban wastewater; Pollution caused by industrial activities; Priority substances; Over-abstraction; Hydromorphology; Water pricing; Funding and policy integration
• http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52015DC0120
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Water sector
in market
size terms
Source: GWI, 2013
Other dimensions:
Hydrological cycle
Societal impact
Employment
Environment
Economy
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Water sector challenges and opportunities
Large and complex sector. Very brief overview:
1. Supply side – rethinking infrastructure & enhancing asset management & WFD
2. Demand side – reliability & affordability & WFD
3. Re-use and resource recovery – breakthroughs
4. Distribution and treatment – scale, extremes in climate & automation, revenue models
5. Sectorial: Agriculture – largest & precision agro
6. Sectorial: Industry and energy – bulk usage & diversified streams
7. Sectorial: Onshore oil and gas – environmental impact & desalination, re-use and WWT
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Water innovation sector conclusions
• Major challenges for society and economy.
• Paradigm shift from linear model to interconnected grid of stakeholders.
• Bring all relevant stakeholder groups together in a forum to drive innovation forward.
• Climb out of silos and link with other resource challenges (energy, agro, chemical, land use) and society (eco-system services, green economy, WFD).
• Strengthen interregional and international innovation (in-outside EU).
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In response: Strategic Implementation Plan
EIP Water Priorities
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Water innovation barriers & bottlenecks
• Financing
• Procurement
• Partnerships
• Regulation
• Information, showcases, demosites
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Organization and structure
Steering Group – Task Force – Expert Groups – Action Groups
Water policy recommendations
Addressing barriers & bottlenecks
Practice based
29 Action Groups, 11 FP7 INNO-DEMO + H2020 Projects:
• Development of innovative solutions involving the entire innovation value chain
• Application, implementation, commercialization and dissemination of innovative solutions
• Identification of barriers to innovation (practise based) translated into policy recommendations
• Support implementation of water policy
• Connect with relevant/adjacent initiatives
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Action Groups in EIP W Priority Areas
Note relevance of secondary priorities
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Online Marketplace www.eip-water.eu
• Match-making between innovation demand and supply
• Aggregated information from news streams
• Single Point of Access for information on water innovation in Europe & Worldwide
• Meeting point for Europe / worldwide; large / small in water innovation value chain (water users, financiers, technology companies, innovation supporters, promoters, knowledge providers, legal facilitators)
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Online Marketplace Searches
• A people and competences search-machine which bridges the gap(s) between innovation demand and supply
• A semantic layer describing and analyzing the water innovation sector and used for foot-printing and filtering
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Online Marketplace – what does it offer?
• 2000 people, 250 projects, 500 organisations, 100 products & services
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Online Marketplace Projects
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Online Marketplace Projects
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Communication and dissemination
• Regular EIP Water Newsletter
• Personalized news streams via Marketplace
• Social media and EIP Water (global audience)
• EIP Water Conferences (major sector event)
